Spotlight on Emerging Glass Artists

As glass as an art medium grows, the number of artisans does as well. Here at Hudson Beach Glass Philadelphia, we would like to spotlight these young talents and offer them an opportunity to demonstrate and present their work. Every Tuesday for the months of July and August we will be offering a 4 hour hot shop slot, (5:30 pm – 9:30pm), for these artisans to create their work and explain their process to the viewing public.

This is in conjunction with our “Stem vs. Stemless” wine glass event. This is a "very serious" unscientific experiment. We are having stemmed and stemless glasses made by Masterpiece Crystal in West Virginia. During the evening people will sample a ½ glass of wine in each type of glass. The temperature of the wine will be taken and determination for flavor preference, if any, between the two glasses. At the end the guests will be invited to take home the glass of their preference. While they are sampling the glasses they will watch the visiting glass artist and get to view finished examples of their work.

Tickets to this event are presold, so you are guaranteed an audience, so please be prepared. The first and last hours will be open to the general public, but the 2 hours in between will be for the Stem vs Stemless event participants. This is a professional opportunity to reach beyond your know network. We will provide you a table just outside of the hot shop measuring 6’ x 20” to display well-crafted representations of your work for sale. There is a 50/50 split on all sales. We may wish to keep a piece or two on consignment if we feel we can sell it (with your permission of course).




This is an invitational only event for recent graduates or non-student artists. If you know of others that may be interested in this opportunity please forward this information and have them send 5 images of their work and potential slot preference to jhefrein@hudsonbeachglasspa.com. We are looking for high quality well thought out work.

The dates are as follows:
July 6th-Emma Salamon
July 13th-Nikolaj Christensen
July 20th-Daniel White
July 27th-Annie Shepard
August 3rd-Skitch Manion
August 10th-Drew Smith
August 17th-Kathleen Anderson
August 24th-Alex Lozier

Thanks for your interest and participation

Jenna Efrein

Hudson Beach Glass Philadelphia-Manager

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Hudson Beach Glass Phila Space

Hudson Beach Glass Phila Space

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